"He was no good. Weak. That's what he was. And mean-minded. Look what he did to poor Marian. He let her drink herself to death, then stood there watching the show while she had her final DTs. She broke the bed and nearly came down through the attic floor."

 

"Norbert did more than that. He encouraged her."

 

"Why? Did he hate her?"

 

"He was jealous of her as a child. Remember?"

 

"I remember he used to follow her everywhere with his eyes."

 

"That's what I mean. Counting the time. He was jealous, but too sneaky to do anything open, and too small to grow up and forget it. He had a little rabbity nothing of a chin. No other woman would ever look at him and that's a fact."